Gustavus Simmons

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Gustavus James Simmons (born October 27, 1930 in West Virginia ) is an American applied mathematician and cryptographer .

Life

Gustavus Simmons studied at Deep Springs College in California and received his PhD from the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque . As a cryptographer, he was director of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory at Sandia National Laboratories . Simmons dealt mainly with the problem of authentication , with applications to the mutual control of the test of nuclear weapons in the Nuclear Weapons Test Ban Treaty (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty). For this he received the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Prize in 1986 .

In the 1980s he was one of the pioneers in the implementation of factoring methods on parallel computers at Sandia Labs (on a Cray X-MP vector computer), with the quadratic sieving method also being implemented (James Davis, Diane Holdridge, 1983).

He was a co-founder of the International Association of Cryptological Research (IACR), of which he is an Honorary Fellow. In 1991 he received an honorary doctorate from Lund University .

Simmons also developed the game Sim , which is based on graph theory.

Fonts

Editor: Contemporary Cryptology: The Science of Information Integrity. Wiley 1999, ISBN 0-7803-5352-8 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Simmons: How to Insure That Data Acquired Treaty to Verify Compliance are Trustworthy. Contemporary Cryptology (IEEE), 1992, pp. 617-630
  2. ↑ Spiegel, No. 52, 1983, Breakthrough in Beer
personal data
SURNAME Simmons, Gustavus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simmons, Gustavus James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American applied mathematician and cryptographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH West Virginia